Don't Forget to Write

Don't Forget to Write by Sara Goodman Confino
I loved this book! It just invites the reader in and lets them exist in the story. Wonderful writing and beautifully developed characters that I just really connected with. This is a coming of age adventure with a beautiful message of "love who you want". Everyone needs a Great Aunt Ada!
Marilyn Kleinman is an eighteen year old that doesn't fit the mold that holds her to her Jewish parents' expectations. She rebels and her father responds. She is sent to spend the summer with her Great Aunt Ada. She expects a strict pillar of confinement and rules that will break her, what she finds is the most amazing friend and ally that she never saw coming.
In this coming of age adventure of the 1960's, Marilyn finds herself and freedom. Her aunt is a matchmaker with a phenomenal reputation, and it's up to her to "save" Marilyn when she is caught making out with the Rabbi's son. As the summer unfolds, Marilyn and Ada head to the Jersey shore and new adventures together. Marilyn learns a few life lessons, some family secrets and discovers where she can go when she doesn't settle. When her father threatens to disinherit her, Marilyn has to decide if she will embrace the comfortable life she knows or will she reach for something more and risk everything to follow her dreams.
Everything about this story is just wonderful. It's a well written beautiful story with likeable, engaging characters that you can treasure. 5/5⭐